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...that such a course ought to be taught in secondary and high schools and, therefore, has no place at Harvard, is merely to repeat Spark's old argument. Why, then, is it still given? And why does almost the entire Freshman class still take it? The obvious answer is that students do not order their precollege work correctly. But even so, are secondary schools never to assume their proper burden and really prepare boys for college? Certainly they never will so long as colleges consider it their duty to teach all the odds and ends of elementary subjects preparatory schools...
Hungarian reviewers noted that Prince Galitzin has seen fit to adduce no evidence whatever in support of his assertions. They evinced surprise that he should have troubled to repeat a rumor that has long fallen upon deaf ears...
Lest you should think me unduly aroused over a matter of form, let me say that I recently sent you a two years' subscription and shall probably repeat it if the opportunity is offered...
...shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima, was compelled to repeat Puccini's ringing lacrimosities upon the stairs; Anne Roselle was an amply emotional heroine...
...wealthy now and in his dangerous forties. Jim, always an idler, watched the danger menacing his friends' happiness until it was almost too late. How he acted at the last moment, what he staked, at what odds, and lost, is too finely and poignantly told in the book to repeat here. Suffice it that Jim seems too good to be true and yet is true; and that there is a last chapter, where the Star's scrubwomen come in, which will torture the most inveterate reader of novels between a sob and a smile...